Gothic Seat Circa 150 Metres South West Of Painswick House

PAINSWICK PAINSWICK HOUSE SO 8610/8710 6/262 Gothic seat, c.150 m south west of Painswick House GV II* Garden element. c.1750, possibly by Thomas Robins. Large limestone ashlar block front, rubble back wall, stone slate roof. A 3-bay open loggia with pointed arches separated by clustered slender colonnettes, the central opening wider, and with crenellations above a string course, raised in the centre section. At the back are two raking buttresses. The interior has a rectangular coved plaster vault; both this and the hipped roof in poor condition at time of Survey (March 1986). One of a group of garden buildings in an important surviving rococo ensemble, at the bottom end of a long north-south vista. (Mowel, T and White, R; Thomas Robins at Painswick, Jnl of Garden History, Vol 4 no 2).

Listing NGR: SO8619010382